Munster Ladies’s Group captain Mary Dowling (Mallow) is hoping her facet can safe consecutive titles this week because the Males’s and Ladies’s Interprovincial Championships get underway at Knightsbrook Golf Membership tomorrow morning.
Underneath the steering of Dowling and workforce supervisor Sinead Enright (Macroom), the province ended a 5 12 months look ahead to glory in 2024, claiming simply their ninth win within the occasion’s 61-year historical past. Now, the facet are aiming to repeat the feat final achieved by a Munster Ladies’s workforce in 2002 and 2003.
“Again within the 2000s, Munster gained it two years in a row so that’s their entire factor now, that we’ve got to do pretty much as good as that workforce, that we’ve got to go for 2 in a row,” mentioned Dowling.
“They’re filled with confidence and anticipation.”
5 gamers from final 12 months’s profitable facet return, together with present Bridgestone Ladies’s Order of Benefit chief Aideen Walsh (Lahinch), Valerie Clancy (Killarney), Mairead Martin (Kanturk), Clodagh Coughlan (Douglas) and Caitlin Shippam (Ballykisteen).
Douglas pair Karen O’Neill and Aoife Ní Thuama additionally return to the fold, having final featured in 2023 and 2022 respectively, including additional expertise to a tight-knit group.
“There’s an important bond,” mentioned Dowling.
“Now we have Cork, Clare and Waterford so there was numerous slagging now between the Banner and the Déise and the Rebels. I believe now of the seven, 5 are Cork and we’ve got one from Limerick and one from Clare.”
Having loved interprovincial success as each a participant and captain, Dowling understands that the best of margins can determine the championship however is aware of that one other victory could be particularly significant.
“It will be superb, it actually would. Munster has gained it so little through the years, it will be very particular. The principle factor actually is that they simply put up a very good efficiency, and I do know they’ll,” mentioned Dowling.
“There are nice golfers on all of the groups, and it comes all the way down to very small margins on the finish of it, however we would be hoping.”
One other workforce trying to make historical past are the Leinster Males’s facet, who’re chasing a fourth title in a row, an achievement that will match their nice Nineteen Sixties workforce who triumphed from 1962 to 1965.
Harry McAlinden (Bray) captains the facet for a fourth time and can look to a robust line up which incorporates West of Eire champion Dylan Holmes (Greystones), Munster Stroke Play runner-up Eoin Murphy (Dundalk), East of Eire runner-up Robert Abernethy (Dun Laoghaire), Paul Coughlan (Castleknock) and Keith Egan (Carton Home) as they bid to defend their crown as soon as extra.
The three-day occasion tees off at 8.00am Wednesday morning with a two-tee begin because the Ladies’s Championship leads the best way with their foursome matches. Munster will start their defence towards Connacht whereas Ulster face Leinster earlier than the Males’s Championship will get underway at 8.24am, with Leinster going through Munster and Ulster taking over Connacht.
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